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are very, very significant. A lawyer lives by words, because the court is the very temple of this world. Have you seen the buildings of high courts? They are the temples now. Much is wasted on them. Why? Even temples have become tiny, but high court buildings go on getting higher and higher and bigger and bigger. In fact, the power is there -- the power of violence and murder, the power of law and language and logic. A lawyer is a logician.
He knew well that this man had a condition: if you remain silent, he will give; if you ask, he will not give -- `But even then not all could keep silent.' It is so difficult to keep silent. You know, I tell you again and again: Be silent! -- but is it so? I tell you again and again, a thousand and one times, that God is ready to give to you, but show your readiness to receive by your silence. And you have not shown it. You would like to say to God that you are really in very, very much misery, in anguish, anxiety, so that something more can be fetched out of Him.
ONE DAY IT WAS THE TURN OF THE LAWYERS TO RECEIVE THEIR SHARE OF THE BOUNTY. ONE OF THEM COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIMSELF AND HE MADE THE MOST COMPLETE APPEAL POSSIBLE.
NOTHING WAS GIVEN TO HIM.
THIS, HOWEVER, WAS NOT THE END OF HIS EFFORTS.
It is difficult to get rid of a lawyer; he will find other ways. Because if it was not possible, then he would find other ways, he would find other loopholes. From somewhere else he would try to enter into the house -- maybe it is the back door....
I have a great friend. He is a very famous lawyer. He was telling me that once it happened that he was fighting a case in the court of a very saintly man -- and I know that judge also: he was really a saintly man. And he would not receive any bribery. On the contrary, if somebody tried to bribe him, it was certain he would lose the case. So what did this lawyer do? He tried to bribe him from the opposite party. He found a way. Of course, the opposite party lost the case.
He sent a man, his agent, in the name of the other party, and tried to bribe the judge. And the judge was very angry -- of course, the other party lost the case. And the other
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